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Fields and Pastures New: My First Year as a Country Vet [Paperback]

John McCormack (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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YA?In 1963, McCormack and his wife and children moved to Butler, Alabama, so he could begin his career as the first and only veterinarian of Choctaw County. The people had previously relied on Carney Sam Jenkins, the unofficial and untrained dispenser of superstition and old wives' remedies. Readers will be captivated by the doctor, his family, and the characters who inhabit and enliven the community with their humanity, eccentricities, and enormous goodwill. Many of the stories are hilarious, but the kicks, bruises, and the administering of horse-sized laxatives may be funnier to read about than experience. Love of family, townspeople, and their animals shines through this readable, lively book by an author with a good ear for dialogue and a fine sense of place. Readers will doubtless demand further adventures of this American soulmate of James Herriot.?Judy Sokoll, Fairfax County Public Library,
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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McCormack describes some of his cases during his first year as the only veterinarian in a rural Alabama county. While each chapter revolves around a specific patient's treatment, he also weaves around each case his reflections on the rural South in the 1960s, with descriptions of the local culture and individual residents, the countryside, the roads, and the houses. The warm personalities as well as the superstitions, folk remedies, and foibles of the people are clearly evident and add greatly to the enjoyment and educational value of the book. For popular collections.?A. Louis Shor, DVM, Veterinary Consultant, Mt. Laurel, N.J.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Next Best Thing Than Being There Assisting Dr. McCormack, May 26 2001
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S. Kelley (Cleveland,Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fields and Pastures New: My First Year as a Country Vet (Paperback)
I own the hardback copy of this book...actually I have owned it for a few years now. It is one of those books that become a literary treasure in your bookcase. I was so hooked on this book when I first got it, I read it from cover to cover in one day...I just couldn't put it down!

Dr. McCormack in the US can be likened to James Herriott of England. His stories of animals that he treated and the start of his career in the 1960's makes the reader feel they are right along side him assisting in whatever procedure needs to be done to his animal patient.

I am a person of great compassion for animals and as a reader, I was truly appreciative that the love and compassion that Dr. McCormack has for his animal patients shines through to the reader's soul. I laughed with this book..I have cried with this book...I have pulled for the sick animal in this book...I have rooted Dr. McCormack through as he treated tough cases in this book.

There are books about animals and then there are the special books about animals because the respect, compassion from the writer is there and the animal patients become real as one reads along the journey in the book.

If you are a James Herriott fan or an animal lover who is a reader, I highly, and I stress highly, suggest getting this book and reading it!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good Vet Stories, Great Portrait of Alabama, April 18 2001
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J. Glisson (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fields and Pastures New: My First Year as a Country Vet (Paperback)
My people are not from Choctaw County, but we're from "around there." This is not only a sympathetic and heartfelt account of a rural vet practice in the sixties; it's a very accurate look at the folks you were likely to meet then and there, both the good and the bad. I have met most of the folks he talks about, or at least their near relations. Dr. McCormack's extended meditation on the verbal mangling of his job description by his neighbors is alone worth the price of admission, although the account of his visit to the Governor's Mansion driving the "rounds vehicle" and a too-long-delayed boar cutting run it very close. Excellent book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A good read anytime!, July 15 2000
This review is from: Fields and Pastures New: My First Year as a Country Vet (Paperback)
I really enjoyed this book. It had good detail, and you really felt like you were going on the rounds with Dr. McCormack. I have read it several times since I bought it, and it is hard to put down each time, even though I know the outcome!

I enjoyed reading how tough it was to convert some of the farmers to the methods of modern veterinary medicine, and it was interesting to read the different methods the farmers had preferred to treat the illnesses in their livestock and pets until their was more modern help available.

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